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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne Online
Scaevola
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There is 1 tagged instance of Scaevola in 1 chapter.
Distribution of tagged instances of Scaevola per chapter.
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 38
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them Everyone knows the story of Scaevola who, having slipped into the enemy camp to kill their leader but failing to strike his target, continued his mission — and freed his country — by more unconventional means.